Is today is a bank holiday for Janmashtami? Complete state wise holiday list, check here

Banks in certain states will be closed on the occasion of Krishna Janmashtami or Janmashtami on August 18, 19 and 20, this week. There are certain bank holidays that are state-specific and others where all banks in the country will be closed.

According to the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) holiday schedule, all commercial and public sector banks in certain states will be closed on August 18th, 19th and 20th.

Banks will be closed in the following states

• August 18, 2022 (Thursday)- Janmashtami- Orissa, Uttarakhand, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh
• August 19, 2022 (Friday) – Janmashtami (Shravan Vad-8)/Krishna Jayanthi- Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim, Rajasthan, Jammu, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh, and Srinagar.
• August 20, 2022 (Saturday)- Sri Krishna Ashtami- Telangana

Banks will work in the remaining states as usual on the 18th, 19th, and 20th of August.


All banks were closed on August 15 in commemoration of Independence Day. Muharram, Raksha Bandhan, Janmashtami, the Parsi New Year, and Ganesh Chaturthi are among the state-specific holidays.

For the remaining month of August, banks in certain states will be closed for these festivals: Tithi of Srimanta Sankardeva, and Ganesh Chaturthi.

The holidays are designated by the RBI are as follows: Holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act; Holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act and Real-Time Gross Settlement Holiday; and Banks' Closing of Account.